Wrecking Ball

Look out boys, 'cause I'm a rollin' stone

That's what I was when I first left home

I took every secret that I'd ever known

And headed for the wall

Like a wrecking ball

Started down on the road to sin

Playin' bass under a pseudonym

The days were rough and it's all quite dim

But my mind cuts through it all

Like a wrecking ball

Oh, just a little deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

I's just a little deadhead

I won a dollar on a scholarship

Well, I got tired and let my average slip

Then I's a farmer in the pogonip

Where the weed that I recall

Was like a wrecking ball

I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin

She showed me colors I'd never seen

Drank the bottom out of my canteen

Then left me in the fall

Like a wrecking ball

Standin' there, in the morning mist

A Jack and Coke at the end of my wrist

Yes, I remember when first we kissed

Though it was nothing at all

Like a wrecking ball

Hey boys, just a little deadhead

Who's watching, who's watching?

I's just a little deadhead

With too much trouble for me to shake

Oh, the weather and the blindin' ache

Was ridin' high until the '89 quake

Hit the Santa Cruz garden mall

Like a wrecking ball